North  of  the  Yangtze 

The  North  Kiangsu  Mission  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  United  States 


Rev.  Henry  F.  Williams 


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North  of  the  Yangtze 


The  North  Kiangsu  Mission  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
United  States. 


BY 

HENRY  F.  WILLIAMS. 


Published  by  the 

PRESBYTERIAN  COMMITTEE  OF  PUBLICATION, 
Richmond,  Va.  Texarkana,  Ark. -Tex. 


INTRODUCTION. 


The  purpose  of  this  sketch  of  the  North  Kiangsii 
Mission  is  to  give  brief  statements  pertaining  to  the 
present  conditions  of  the  work,  and  is  not  intended  to 
be  historical.  For  sketches  of  onr  missions  from  the 
beginnings  reference  is  made  to  “In  Four  Continents,”  a 
book  giving  histoincal  sketches  of  all  the  mission  fields 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States.  See 
page  32. 

The  frequent  use  of  the  map  is  essential  to  an  under- 
standing of  the  survey  given  of  the  stations  of  the 
Mission. 

An  item  of  special  interest  is  the  page  giving  inven- 
tory of  the  property  value,  estimated  upon  a conservative 
basis,  at  all  the  stations.  This  is  the  actual  investment 
in  dollars  and  cents  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
United  States  has  in  the  North  Kiangsn  Mission. 

The  summary  of  what  is  ofiicially  considered  the 
essential  need  of  the  Mission  in  reinforcements  and 
equipment  merits  carefnl  study.  It  sets  before  the 
church  both  its  opportunity  and  responsibilit3’  in 
making  possible  the  early  evangelization  of  that  part  of 
North  Kiangsn  assigned  to  our  denomination. 

Pronunciation  of  the  Chinese  names  of  the  stations 
of  the  North  Kiangsn  Mission  is  given  below: 

PRONUNCIATIONS. 

HsrcHouFu,  Soo-cbow-foo. 

Chinki.\?^g.  Cbin-keang ; first  i as  in  thin,  broad  a. 

IIaichow.  Hi-jo ; i and  o long. 

T.\iciiow,  Ti-.io  ; i and  o long. 

Wy-an-foo. 

SucHiEX,  Soo-cbeii. 

Tsingkiangpu,  Tsing,  combination  of  the  t and  s sound; 
keang-poo. 

Yangtze,  a i)road,  with  last  syllable  pronounced  with  the 
sound  of  tz. 


Men  of  the  Suchien  Church  and  Congregation. 


North  of  the  Yangtze 


North  Kiangsu  Province. 

The  seacoast  Province  of  Kiangsu  is  one  of  the  most 
thickly  populated  in  all  the  Empire.  The  city  of 
Shanghai  is  in  the  southeast  corner.  The  Yangtze,  one 
of  the  greatest  rivers  of  commerce  in  the  world,  extends 
through  the  province  from  east  to  west.  The  Grand 
Canal,  eight  hundred  miles  long  and  eight  or  nine 
hundred  years  old,  bisects  the  province  from  north  to 
south.  The  territory  of  the  Mid-China  Mission  includes 
that  part  of  Kiangsu  Province  south  of  the  Yangtze 
Eiver  and  a part  of  the  province  of  Chekiang.  The 
North  Kiangsu  Mission  is  located  in  the  section  of  the 
Kiangsu  Province  north  of  the  Yangtze  Eiver. 

The  tw'O  great  rivers  of  China  are  the  Yangtze  and 
Hoang-ho,  or  Yellow  Eiver.  The  Yangtze  has  been 
described  as  being  to  China  what  the  Mississippi  is  to 
the  United  States,  or  the  Amazon  to  South  America. 
Large  ocean  steamers  make  easy  passage  for  a distance 
of  more  than  six  hundred  miles  from  the  mouth.  The 
Hoang-ho,  or  Yellow  Eiver,  is  known  as  the  “Eiver  of 
Sorrow”  in  China  on  account  of  the  frequent  overflows, 
causing  destruction  of  life  and  property.  Originally 
its  channel  followed  a devious  way  to  the  southward, 
opening  into  the  Yellow  Sea  far  to  the  south  of  its  pres- 
ent mouth.  In  1852,  during  one  of  the  great  floods,  a 
new  channel  was  opened  and  the  river  now  empties  into 
the  Gulf  of  Chi-li,  hundreds  of  miles  to  the  north  of 
the  original  entrance  of  the  river  into  the  Yellow  Sea. 
The  territory  of  the  North  Kiangsu  Mission  includes  the 
great  plain  of  the  Yellow  Eiver.  In  this  region  have 


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occuTTed  the  great  famines,  during  which  unnumbered 
thousands  have  perished.  Through  these  famines  and 
the  work  of  the  missionaries  in  the  distribution  of  relief, 
the  door  for  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel  has  been  opened 
in  all  this  great  territory,  with  its  millions  of  unevan- 
gelized people. 


The  Two  Missions. 

Our  work  in  China,  beginning  at  the  south  in  the 
ancient  ciCv  of  Hangchow  in  18(57,  has  been  extended 
northward  as  rapidly  as  the  fields  could  be  entered. 
The  Grand  Canal,  the  greatest  artery  of  commerce  in 
China  for  probabh’  eight  or  more  centuries,  has  also 
been  tlie  line  of  our  missionary  advance.  In  the  exten- 
sion of  the  work,  stations  were  opened  in  that  part  of 
the  Kiangsu  Province  north  of  the  Yangtze  until,  in 
188(5,  it  had  enlarged  to  such  a degree  that  for  conven- 
ience in  administration  the  field  was  divided  into  the 
Mid-China  and  North  Kiangsu  Missions. 

Survey. 

As  introductory  to  a brief  account  of  the  work  at 
each  of  the  principal  stations  of  the  North  Kiangsu 
Mission,  a brief  survey  of  the  entire  field  will  be  profit- 
able. This  survey  will  be  made  in  the  form  of  briefly 
described  journeys  to  each  of  the  stations. 

In  the  division  of  the  field  into  the  two  Missions,  it 
was  advisable  to  include  Chinkiang,  located  on  the 
soiilh  bank  of  the  Yangtze  River,  in  the  North  Kiangsu 
Mission.  This  city,  the  first  of  the  North  Kiangsu 
Mission  stations  as  we  journey’  northward,  is  the  great 
distributing  point  for  this  part  of  China,  and  is  espe- 
cially important  to  the  sections  along  the  Grand  Canal 
to  the  north. 


North  op  the  Yangtze. 


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We  will  suppose  that  we  have  come  from  Shanghai 
to  Chinkiang  by  rail,  about  150  miles.  The  first  part 
of  the  journey  to  the  north  is  the  crossing  of  the  Y^ang- 
tze.  We  travel  in  a canal  boat,  more  or  less  comfort- 
able, according  to  the  number  of  passengers  and  the 
condition  of  the  weather.  The  passenger  boats  are 
drawn  by  steam  launches.  Entering  the  Grand  Canal 
on  the  north  side  of  the  Y^'angtze  River,  we  continue  a 
most  interesting  journey.  Villages,  towns,  cities,  large 
and  small,  are  passed.  The  canal  is  crowded  with 
thousands  of  canal  boats.  Some  of  them,  as  that  on 
which  we  travel,  are  for  passengers,  others  with  cargoes 
of  freight.  The  string  of  boats  is  towed  b^^  the  steam 
launches,  propelled  by  sail  and  oar,  or  are  towed  by 
men,  as  the  canal  boats  in  onr  country  are  drawn  by 
animals  along  the  tow-path.  It  is  120  miles  to  onr  first 
destination,  and  the  time  occupied  in  the  journey  varies 


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from  tAveiit3'-foiir  to  thirty  hours — sometimes  longer. 
This  is  a speedy  trip  compared  with  the  time  requii^ed 
in  the  days  before  steam  launches,  which  was  not  so 
long  ago.  In  due  time  we  arrive  at  the  city  of 
Ilwaianfu,  120  miles  from  Chinkiang,  the  second  of  our 
mission  stations  on  the  Canal  nmdh  of  the  Yangtze. 
The  steam  launch,  with  its  tow  for  canal  boats,  will 
proceed  on  its  journey  to  Tsingkiangpu,  but  as  visitors 
to  our  mission  fields,  it  is  probable  we  will  be  met  at 
Ilwaianfu  by  a company  of  missionaries  in  the  trim 
little  launch,  the  Marian  Sprunt,  a well-constructed 
launch,  the  gift  of  Mr.  James  Sprunt,  of  Wilmington, 
N.  C.,  as  a memorial  to  his  daughter,  Marian.  A speedy 
and  comfortable  passage  is  made  to  Tsingkiangpu,  the 
third  of  our  mission  stations,  ten  miles  to  the  north  of 
Ilwaianfu. 

Tsingkiangpu  is  as  far  to  the  noiTh  on  the  Canal  as 
the  larger  canal  boats,  drawn  by  steam  launches,  can 
go.  We  must  here  engage  a houseboat  which,  by  sail, 
rowing,  or  being  towed  by  men  along  the  canal,  will 
convey  us  on  our  joiirney  northward.  Near  this  city 
there  are  a number  of  locks  in  the  canal,  and  time  will 
be  saved  b\'  sending  the  boat  ahead  and  making  a short 
journey  by  wheelbarrow  to  a village  and  general  landing 
place  beyond  the  locks.  As  we  proceed  on  our  journey 
we  have  a better  appreciation  of  the  poverty  of  the 
people  and  their  terrific  experience  in  the  famine  region. 
The  l)oat  will  sometimes  make  such  slow  progress  that 
we  may  walk  along  the  shores  in  advance  and  hold  brief 
meetings  with  the  people  in  the  villages.  We  soon 
<?ease  to  be  surprised  to  find  they  are  not  only  poor  and 
ignorant  in  things  of  this  life,  but  are  in  poverty  and 
ignorance  concerning  things  spiritual  to  such  degree 
that  they  have  never  even  so  much  as  heard  the  name  of 


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Jesus.  Sixty  miles  from  Tsingkiangpu  we  arrive  at 
the  city  of  Suchien,  the  fourth  of  our  mission  stations. 

The  trip  from  Hwaianfu  to  Suchien  can  be,  and  is 
often  made  by  Chinese  cart,  the  road  much  of  the  way 
being  along  the  banks  of  the  Grand  Canal  or  on  the  old 
Yellow  Kiver  embankments,  that  in  ancient  and  modern 
times  were  built  to  control  the  floods  of  this  “Elver  of 
Sorrow”  before  its  channel  was  turned  farther  north. 


The  Marian  Sprunt. 


W^e  have  yet  to  continue  our  journey  in  a north- 
westerly direction  to  Hsuchoufu.  The  Chinese  cart,  a 
heavy  lumbering-  vehicle  with  two  wheels  and  without 
springs,  drawn  by  two  mules  driven  tandein,  is  to  be  our 
conveyance.  We  are  still  traveling  over  the  wide  plain 
which  was  once,  much  of  the  time,  the  bed  and  the 
valley  of  the  Y'ellow  Elver.  Unless  we  make  especially 
good  speed  it  requires  about  two  days  and  a half  to 
cover  the  eighty  miles  from  Suchien  to  Hsuchoufu. 
The  missionaries  will  have  provided  food  and  bedding. 
We  stop  for  dinner  at  some  convenient  town,  and  spend 
the  nights  in  the  crude  Chinese  inns.  As  we  near  the 


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end  of  our  journey,  the  country  is  more  broken,  and  in 
the  distance  near  the  city  there  are  ranges  of  high  hills 
or  low  mountains.  We  pass  along  a wall  built  in  the 
centuries  past,  through  the  gate  of  a second  wall  built 
around  these  cities  of  the  north,  and  then  through  the 
main  wall  Avhich  surrounds  the  city  proper,  and  near 
the  entrance  of  the  latter  we  arrive  at  the  mission 
compound. 


Sawing  Lumber. 


In  a further  travel  survey  of  the  stations  of  the 
North  Kiangsu  Mission  we  will  again  start  from  Chin- 
kiang.  Our  first  visit  will  be  to  Taichow.  Again 
crossing  the  Yangtze  from  Chinkiang,  we  enter  one  of 
the  well-nigh  innumerable  canals  that  supply  the  means 
of  communication,  and  proceed  by  houseboat  to  Taichow, 
a city  about  fifty  miles  to  the  north  of  Chinkiang,  and 
about  the  same  distance  east  of  Grand  Canal. 


North  of  the  Yangtze. 


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The  next  in  the  chain  of  stations  between  the  Grand 
Canal  and  the  Yellow  Sea,  extending  northward,  is  the 
city  of  Yencheng,  the  most  recently  opened  station  of 
the  North  Kiangsu  Mission.  Its  location  is  about  sixty 
miles  north  of  Taichow  and  about  sixty  miles  east  of 
Hwaianfu.  The  usual  route  followed  in  going  to  Yen- 
cheng is  from  Hwaianfu  by  canal  or  Chinese  cart. 

Our  next  and  last  station  of  the  North  Kiangsu  Mis- 
sion is  Haichow.  The  visitor  to  this  station  will  leave 
the  Grand  Canal  at  Tsingkiangpu  and  make  the  quickest 
journey  by  Chinest  cart.  The  trip  can  also  be  made 
by  canal  or  on  a wheelbarrow.  Haichow  may  also  be 
reached  in  about  the  same  length  of  time — three  days — 
by  Chinese  cart,  or  in  an  indefinite  period  of  time  by 
canal,  or  barrow,  from  Suchien. 

This  travel  survey  of  the  North  Kiangsu  Mission  in- 
cludes only  the  central  stations.  There  are  a number 
of  out-stations,  where  regular  preaching  is  maintained 
b}’  native  preachers  and  visiting  missionaries,  and  a 
larger  number  of  out-stations  that  are  visited  by  itin- 
erating missionaries  and  native  evangelists.  The 
journeys  to  these  fields,  except  along  the  Grand  Canal, 
would  be  made  by  wheelbarrow,  houseboat  and  Chinese 
cart. 

By  reference  to  the  map  the  reader  will  see  the  large 
stretch  of  territory  included  in  this  rapid  survej'.  We 
have  gone  over  three  hundred  miles  north  from  Chin- 
kiang  to  Hsuchoufu  and  Haichow;  the  width  of  the 
field,  east  and  west,  is  from  seventy-five  to  one  hundred 
miles.  If,  in  the  survey,  we  had  undertaken  to  visit  all 
the  mission  stations  of  other  denominations,  we  would 
have  seen  only  two  comparatively  small  stations  other 
than  our  own.  Hence,  as  we  journey  in  thought  and 
contemplate  the  sphere  of  our  North  Kiangsu  Mission, 


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we  should  remember  that  the  boundary  line  at  the  south 
is  the  Yangtze  lliver;  at  the  north,  the  line  between 
Kiangsu  and  Shantung  Provinces;  on  the  west  an  imag- 
inary boundary  line  from  ten  to  seventy-five  miles  west 
of  the  Grand  Canal ; and  on  the  east  the  Y^ellow  Sea. 
Within  the  boundaries  thus  given  our  missionaries  esti- 
mate a population  of  10,000,000  people,  and  these 
millions  are  assigned  to  and  are  to  be  evangelized  by 
the  North  Kiangsu  Mission  of  our  Southern  Presbyte- 
rian Church. 


STATION  SKETCHES. 

Chinkiang. 

The  only  station  of  the  North  Kiangsu  Mission 
south  of  the  Yangtze  River  is  Chinkiang.  This 
city,  with  a population  of  about  325,000,  is  one  of  the 
most  important  in  this  section  of  the  empire.  The 
Yangtze  River  supplies  a medium  of  communication  to 
the  sea  in  the  one  direction  and  far  into  the  interior  in 
the  other.  The  Grand  Canal,  with  innumerable  inter- 
secting canals,  entering  the  Yangtze  from  the  south  and 
also  opening  into  the  Yangtze  on  the  north  side,  pro- 
vides communication  to  the  north  and  south.  In  recent 
years  the  railroad  from  Shanghai  to  Nanking  has 
greatly  added  to  the  importance  of  the  city  as  a receiving 
and  distributing  center.  The  city  is  beautifully  sit- 
uated, with  extensive  suburbs  along  the  Canal.  Five 
of  these  suburban  cities  can  be  seen  from  our  Mission 
station  grounds. 

Chinkiang  was  opened  in  1883.  Our  work  at  Chin- 
kiang consists  of  an  organized  church  within  the  city 
and  a church  at  the  south  gate.  A considerable  terri- 


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toiy,  with  important  out-stations,  is  included  in  the 
Chinkiang  field.  The  Burton  Memorial  School  is  a 
boarding  school  of  the  high  school  grade  for  boys.  The 
last  report  shows  an  attendance  of  about  forty.  No 
increase  in  the  attendance  is  possible  until  the  needed 
enlargement  of  the  building  is  made.  The  property 
equipment  and  financial  statement  of  the  Chinkiang  and 
other  stations  will  be  found  on  other  pages. 

The  needs  at  Chinkiang  are  additional  residences,  a 
church  building,  hospital,  and  additional  land.  There 
are  some  discouragements  connected  with  the  work  at 
this  station,  as  in  all  our  stations,  but  there  has  been  a 
steady  growth  from  the  beginning.  The  missionarj 
force  necessary  to  do  the  work  in  the  city  and  the  out 
lying  fields  has  never  been  adequate.  From  the  station 
compound  there  are  beautiful  views  of  the  city  below 
and  the  mountains  in  the  distance ; but  the  consecrated 
missionary  turns  from  admiration  of  the  scene  to  the 
thought  of  the  hundreds  of  thousands  in  the  city  of 
Chinkiang  and  its  prosperous  suburbs,  with  the  out- 
lying region,  who  wait  for  the  gospel  message  that 
cannot  be  delivered  without  more  workers  and  enlarged 
equipment. 

Tsingkiangpu. 

We  continue  the  sketch  of  our  mission  stations  in 
the  order  of  their  opening.  This  station,  located  130 
miles  north  of  Chinkiang  on  the  Grand  Canal,  was 
opened  in  1887.  The  population  is  about  150,000.  It 
has  been  one  of  the  most  difficult  fields.  The  people 
are  turbulent,  and  in  the  early  days  manifested  great 
opposition  to  the  missionaries.  Of  the  general  work 
at  this  station,  one  of  our  missionaries  writes : ‘‘In  the 
field  it  has  to  cover,  up  to  this  time,  we  have  been  a 


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Tsingkiangpu  Orphanage  Boys. 


center  for  colonizing  the  various  centers  of  this  North 
Kiangsu  country.  We  have  ‘swarmed’  until  now  most 
of  the  larger  centers  of  population  are  opened  as  central 
stations  and  look  after  their  own  territory.  Those  of 
us  who  were  responsible  for  the  evangelistic  work 
divided  up  the  territory  so  as  to  be  able  to  get  in 
intensive  Avork,  and  the  field  has  been  worked  probably 
better  than  ever  before.  The  work  at  the  station  has 
been  more  croAvded  than  ever  before,  mainly  because  we 
are  shoidhanded.  All  the  ordinary  forms  of  mission 
work  are  carried  on  here  every  day.” 

The  evangelistic  Avork  is  represented  by  a church  in 
the  city  of  Tsingkiangpu,  with  a number  of  preaching 
places  throughout  the  city.  The  out-station  field  is 
large.  The  missionaries  travel  from  village  to  village 
by  AvheelbarroAv,  preaching  on  the  streets  and  selling 
books  and  Gospels.  The  last  annual  report  mentions 
the  sale  of  some  ten  thousand  books.  There  is  a small 
girls’  school  made  up  of  the  children  of  adherents,  and 
a boys’  school  of  the  same  character.  In  these  schools 


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the  boys  and  girls  are  taught  the  Bible,  catechism, 
hymns,  etc.  The  Orphanages  are  among  a number  of  the 
series  of  such  institutions  established  by  the  Christian 
Herald.  The  last  report  mentions  fifty-nine  children  in 
the  Orphanage  at  Tsingkiangpu.  The  boys  and  girls  in 
the  two  orphanages,  conducted  separately,  are  given 
religions  instruction,  and  a number  have  united  with 
the  church. 

The  medical  equipment  at  thisx  station  consists  of  a 
hospital  building  which  is  wholly  inadequate.  In  a 
statement  made  by  the  Mission  concerning  the  medical 
work  at  Tsingkiangpu  it  is  said:  “The  physician  in 
charge  looks  back  over  sixteen  years  of  continuous 
service,  during  which  he  has  treated  over  80,000 
patients,  many  of  them  coming  one  hundred  miles.” 
With  this  statement  should  go  another  statement  ex- 
pressive of  surprise  that  in  the  native  rooms  of  the  so- 
called  hospital  building  so  much  could  be  done.  One 
of  the  greatest  needs  at  Tsingkiangpu  is  a hospital 
adapted  to  the  needs  of  the  work.  The  present  chapel 
in  which  the  services  are  held  is  over-crowded,  and  there 
is  need  of  a church  building.  The  school  buildings  are 
renovated  native  buildings,  and  are  in  no  way  adequate. 
The  future  is  bright  with  promise  at  Tsingkiangpu. 
The  people  are  more  friendly  than  ever  before,  and  in 
all  lines  the  harvest  following  the  years  of  faithful 
service  seems  at  hand. 

SUCHIEN. 

Passing  on  to  the  North,  sixty  miles  from  Tsing- 
kiangpu, our  missionaries,  in  the  extension  of  the  work, 
opened  the  Siichien  station  in  1892. 

“Suchien’s  history  runs  back  into  the  time  of  the 
kings  of  Judah.  If  its  name,  Delightful,  was  a proph- 


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North  op  the  Yangtze 


ecy  it  lias  been  a long  time  in  coming  true.  Its  records 
for  1,500  rears  are  little  more  than  notes  of  floods, 
famines,  blood  and  groans.  Of  old  it  was  built  just  on 
the  banks  of  the  Yellow  Elver,  and  it  and  all  the  country 
around  was  subject  to  overflow.  For  a period  of  600 
years  the  whole  river  was  scarcely  ever  a score  of  years 
in  the  same  channel,  and  the  people  learned  full  well 
what  “China’s  Sorrow”  meant.”* 

In  the  beginning  the  missionaries  met  with  strong 
opposition,  but  the  work  is  now  well  established  in  this 
city  of  60,000  people.  Commencing  in  a Chinese  inn 
the  equipment  has  grown  until  we  now  have  a chapel, 
three  missionary  homes,  a boys’  school  building,  with 
capacity  for  sixty  boarding  pupils,  and  a good  hospital. 
The  Boys’  School  and  hospital  buildings  are  well  located 
on  a plot  of  ground  outside  the  city  walls.  The  boys’ 
school  building  has  capacity  for  sixty  boarders,  but  is 
only  half  furnished.  A school  for  girls  provides  Chris- 
tian education  for  the  daughters  of  native  Christians 
and  others. 

Of  the  evangelistic  work  at  Suchien  a missionary 
says : 

“The  fruits  of  a Christian  life  are  more  and  more 
apparent.  A farmer  gives  his  oxen  and  men-servants 
rest  on  the  Sabbath  day,  and  he  keeps  up  his  services  in 
the  church  in  his  liamlet.  His  only  son  is  in  the  school 
and  he  supports  his  son-in-law-to-be  in  the  Christian 
school  so  as  to  try  to  give  him  a Christian  education. 
Ilis  daughter  had  been  betrothed  to  him  in  infancy,  and 
the  father  saw  his  son-in-law  growing  up  out  of  sym- 
pathy with  Christianity.  The  Christians,  of  their  own 
accord,  have  changed  their  former  custom  of  calling 
their  children  such  names  as  ‘Deception,’  ‘Killer,’ 


*From  “In  Four  Continents.” 


Nokth  of  the  Yangtze. 


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‘Locked-iip/  etc.,  and  now  one  hears  ‘Renewed,'  ‘Great 
Favor,’  ‘Love,’  and  ‘Truth.’  One  of  the  outstations  is 
supported  by  the  Eckington  Sunday  School,  Washing- 
ton. The  first  Christian  there  was  sixty-three  years 
old  when  he  was  baptized,  and  he  began  that  year  to 
study  the  characters,  and  now  at  sixty-seven  can  read 
the  Old  and  New  Testament  with  great  facility.  Ear- 
nest men  and  women  at  a score  of  points  are  bearing 
many  things  for  Christ.” 

The  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement  has  a special 
interest  in  the  excellent  hospital  building  erected  by 
gifts  made  at  the  first  general  convention  of  the  laymen, 
held  in  Birmingham,  Ala.,  in  1909. 

The  needs  of  Suchien  are,  as  in  other  fields,  rein- 
forcements and  adequate  equipment.  Radiating  in  all 
directions  from  this  center  there  is  a large  ontstation 
field.  The  needs  of  the  people  justify  an  urgent  appeal 
and  the  results  of  the  work  in  the  past  justify  the  pre- 
diction that,  with  an  increased  number  of  workers  and 
an  enlarged  equipment,  the  future  has  gi’eater  victories 
to  be  achieved. 

Hsuchoufu. 

Passing  through  the  ontstation  field  of  Suchien 
extending  north  and  northwest  we  pass  into  the  out- 
station  field  of  Hsuchoufu,  extending  to  the  south  and 
southeast  from  the  central  station.  Hsuchoufu  is  one 
of  the  most  important  cities  in  this  part  of  China.  It 
is  a vfide-awake,  progressive,  groAving  city,  with  a 
thickly  populated  outlying  field.  It  marks  the  north- 
ern boundary  of  our  North  Kiangsu  stations.  The 
population,  including  the  suburbs,  is  about  125,000. 
The  Grand  Canal  passes  about  thirty  miles  to  the  east. 
As  at  other  stations,  strong  opposition  was  manifested 


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North  of  the  Yangtze 


Dinner  Time,  Hsuchoufu  Orphanage  Boys. 

on  the  part  of  the  gentry  to  the  work  of  the  first  mis- 
sionaries. They  were  compelled  to  withdraw  for  a 
time,  but  returning  after  a year,  under  somewhat  differ- 
ent conditions,  the  station  was  opened  in  1897.  The 
equipment  at  the  station  consists  of  a good  church 
building,  which  will  seat  about  350  people.  The  edu- 
cational work  is  represented  in  the  Julia  Farrior  San- 
ford Memorial  School  for  Boys,  of  the  high  school 
grade.  The  attendance  upon  this  school  is  to  the  full 
capacity  of  the  building. 

Another  interesting  feature  of  the  educational  and 
benevolent  work,  as  at  Tsingkiangpu,  is  the  Christian 
Herald  orphanages.  The  department  for  boys  has 
between  one  hundred  and  fifty  and  two  hundred  boys, 
and  the  girls’  dei)artment  about  fifty.  Many  of  these 
boys  and  girls  are  children  of  those  who  died  in  the 


North  of  the  Yangtze. 


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famine  period.  They  are  receiving  a good  education 
and  Christian  instruction. 

The  Girls’  School  has  quarters  in  two  renovated 
rooms  of  the  old  tubercular  ward  of  the  men’s  hospital. 
Before  the  close  of  last  year  more  applicants  were 
received  than  these  two  small  rooms  could  accommodate 
for  this  3’ear,  1911.  Our  country  church  members, 
scattered  over  a territor}’  eighty  miles  square,  look  to 
this  school  alone  for  the  educatioil  of  their  daughters. 

The  medical  work  at  Hsuchoufu  is,  as  stated  of  the 
school  work,  limited,  not  by  the  number  who  would 
come  for  treatment,  but  by  the  number  who  can  be 
received  or  treated.  The  two  hospital  buildings — one 
for  men,  the  other  for  women — are  distressingly  inad- 
equate native  buildings,  made  fit  for  occupancy  by 
necessary  repairs.  It  seems  impossible  that,  with  the 
meager  facilities,  3,000  patients,  369  of  whom  were  in- 
patients, could  have  been  treated  in  the  hospital  for 
women  in  one  year  (1910).  The  same  is  true  of  the 
men’s  hospital,  in  which,  during  the  year  covered  by  the 
last  report,  a total  of  20,012  patients,  775  of  whom  were 
in-patients,  were  treated.  These  statements  in  them- 
selves constitute  what  should  seem  an  irresistible  appeal 
for  better  hospital  facilities  at  Hsuchoufu. 

Hwaianfu. 

Taking  the  stations  in  the  order  in  which  they  were 
opened,  we  return  from  Hsuchoufu  southward  to 
Hwaianfu,  a city  of  150,000  population,  located  on  the 
Grand  Canal  ten  miles  south  of  Tsingkiangi^u.  This 
is  one  of  the  most  historic  and  aristocratic  cities  in  this 
part  of  China.  A large  number  of  the  residents  are 
wealthy  Chinese,  and  people  of  the  official  class.  While 
entertaining  a kindly  spirit  toward  the  missionaries. 


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North  of  tfie  Yangtze 


they  are  slow,  on  account  of  their  conservatism,  to 
accept  the  gospel.  It  is  a very  important  center,  and 
spreading  out  in  every  direction  there  is  a network  of 
canals  opening  up  large  sections  of  the  country. 

The  equipment  at  Hwaianfu  consists  of  a comfortable 
chapel,  two  missionary  residences,  and  a distressingly 
inadeijuate  clinical  room,  twelve  by  twenty  feet,  in  a 
native  building.  The  greatest  need  of  this  station  is  an 
adequate  hospital  building.  The  thousands  of  patients 
annually  treated  in  the  clinic  room,  sometimes  as  high 
as  200  in  a single  day,  is  an  indication,  not  only  of  the 
need  of  a hospital  building,  bnt  of  the  great  work  that 
could  be  accomi:»lished  with  the  proi>er  facilities — a work 
which  would  not  only  influence  the  city  itself,  but  would 
be  far-reaching  through  the  patients  that  come  from  long 
distances  for  treatment.  So  interested  are  some  of  the 
wealthy  Chinese  of  the  city  that  one  gentleman,  a Con- 
fucianist,  contributes  flOO.OO  a year  to  the  hospital 
work. 

Taiciiow. 

This  city  has  a po]>ulation  of  some  150,000.  It  is 
located  about  fifty  miles  north  of  Chiukiang  and  reached 
by  canal.  The  opening  of  the  station,  in  1908,  and 
getting  a permanent  foothold,  has  been  a tedious  pro- 
cess. There  has  been  great  op])osition  to  the  purchase 
of  land  and  many  difficulties  in  getting  adequate  build- 
ings. Notwithstanding  these,  sometimes  almost  over- 
whelming obstacles,  a firm  footing  has  been  gained. 
The  present  property  consists  of  land  for  a residence 
and  hos])ital ; also  a large  chapel  with  rooms  for  the 
family  of  the  native  preacher,  located  in  the  center  of 
the  city.  Taichow  is  one  of  the  oiitstanding  needy 
stations,  and  too  strong  a call  cannot  be  made  upon  a 


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JvORTH  OF  THE  YANGTZE 


generous  church  iu  behalf  of  this  field  which,  as  a city, 
is  of  great  importance,  and  in  its  position  of  influence 
can  be  made  the  center  of  a large  outstation  field  iu 
which  there  is  a population  of  1,000,000  people  wholly 
dependent  on  the  Presbyterian  Church,  U.  S.,  for  the 
proclamation  of  the  gosi^el.  Of  the  work  in  Taichow, 
the  missionary  in  charge,  in  his  last  annual  report,  says: 

‘‘We  are  not  discoiiraged  by  the  failure  to  get  large 
crowds,  and  thus  far  additions  to  the  church,  feeling 
that  this  being  a new  place,  we  are  enabled  to  do  a good 
work  by  gaining  more  and  more  the  friendly  feelings  of 
the  people  as  a wliole.  We  recognize  we  have  a hard 
field,  owing  to  1he  greater  amount  of  idolatry  practiced 
here  than  any  other  place  the  writer  has  ever  seen. 
There  are  one  hundred  and  thirty  temples,  large  and 
small,  in  the  city  itself,  and  every  one  says  that  the 
character  of  the  people  here  is  the  worst  in  this  whole 
part  of  China,  which  is  a greater  reason  to  give  them  the 
gosjiel.” 


Haichow. 

Haichow,  the  “city  by  the  .sea.”  After  many  years 
of  visitation  in  this  region,  as  may  be  said  of  all  the 
stations  in  their  beginnings,  Haichow  was  opened  as  a 
I’egular  station  in  1008,  and  missionaries  assigned  to  the 
field.  In  the  early  days  of  the  work  our  missionaries 
were  subject  to  many  privations  and  some  danger.  At 
Haichow  we  have  made  a beginning  in  the  acquisition 
of  land  and  the  erection  of  buildings.  The  last  report 
of  the  Yortli  Kiangsu  Mission  mentions  the  acquisition 
of  a lot  costing  1,000.00,  with  repairs  of  a native  build- 
ing co.sting  .flOO.OO.  The  work  at  this  station  is  evan- 
geli.stic  and  medical.  From  indifference  to  the  gospel, 
with  some  violent  op])osition  to  the  preaching  of  the 


North  op  the  Yangtze 


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gospel,  the  conditions  have  changed,  to  the  great  encour- 
agement of  the  missionaries  at  the  station.  The  medical 
work  has  grown  far  beyond  the  ability  of  the  physician 
in  charge  to  treat  the  patients  that  come  to  the  clinic. 
There  is  no  hospital  building,  and  here,  as  at  other  sta- 
tions, we  face  a pressing  need  of  equipment. 

Haichow,  with  a population  of  50,000,  is  an  impor- 
tant center  of  an  outlying  territoi^y,  thickly  populated, 
both  a needy  and  an  open  field.  Before  the  opening 
of  the  station  a missionary  visiting  Haichow  on  an  itin- 
erating trip,  wrote : 

“I  climbed  to  the  top  of  Haichow  Mountain,  which 
overlooks  the  city.  This  barren  rock  mountain,  quite 
picturesque,  but  as  dead  as  the  empty  forms  of  heathen 
morality  all  around  it,  must  be  a thousand  or  twelve 
hundred  feet  high.  It  was  a beautifully  clear  day  and  I 
could  see  for  miles  and  miles  in  all  directions.  To  the 
east  I could  see  the  blue  ocean  which  stretches  out  to 
America  with  its  Christian  churches  and  lovely  homes. 
In  other  directions,  as  far  as  the  eye  could  I’each,  were 


Primitive  Plowing. 


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North  of  the  Yangtze 


village  after  village,  town  after  town,  hundreds  of  them. 
I knew  these  villages  and  towns  and  the  busy  city  below 
me  were  teeming  with  men  and  women  and  boys  and 
girls.  Not  a single  Christian  in  all  this  great  multi- 
tude— comfortless,  godless,  hopeless.  I looked  back 
toward  Suchien  over  the  ninety  miles  we  had  come. 
Since  Ave  had  left  home  Ave  had  passed  through  a number 
of  towns,  a great  many  villages,  and  one  Availed  city,  and 
Ave  had  not  come  within  sight  of  a single  Protestant 
Christian  home.  I thought  of  the  home  friends  Avho  ai’e 
interested  in  the  opening  of  this  neAv  station,  sending- 
out  Avorkers  for  it  and  supporting  the  work.  1 thought 
of  their  duty  and  glorious  privilege  to  send  light  and 
hope  and  joy  to  these  multitudes,  and  to  make  Christ, 
our  SaAuour,  King  OA’^er  these  who  uoaa"  belong  to 
Satan.”* 

Yencheng. 

Yencheng  is  the  most  recently  ojAened  station  of  the 
North  Kiangsu  Mission.  It  has  long  been  regarded  as 
a held  of  great  importance.  We  quote  from  a recent 
letter  from  one  of  the  missionaries  located  at  Y'encheng : 

“Where  and  what  is  Y'encheng?  Suppose  we  take 
the  name  for  a puenionic.  Yen  means  salt,  and  clienff 
from  the  sea.  So  this  is  the  salt  city.  Noaa',  salt — 
Chinese  salt — comes  from  the  sea.  Hence,  Y^encheng 
must  be  a cit}’  near  the  sea.  So  it  is ; about  forty  miles 
from  the  Y’elloAv  Sea  on  the  east,  and  about  200  miles 
north  of  Shanghai.  Thus  you  can  spot  us  on  any  map, 
though  your  English  map  may  not  mark  the  place, 
becau.se  it  is  not  knoAvn  to  English-speaking  peo])le. 
Our  held  is  bounded  on  the  east  by  the  sea  ; on  the  west, 
about  sixty  miles  aAvay,  by  the  Tsingkiangpu  and 

•“In  Four  Continents.” 


Nortpi  op  the  Yangtze. 


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Hwaianfii  territory.  On  the  northwest  and  southwest 
we  touch  the  fields  of  other  missions,  but  in  all  this  field, 
with  over  a million  people,  there  ai*e  no  other  mission- 
aries. Somebody  fresh  on  geography  can  suggest  a 
state  with  which  to  compare  us.  Is  not  West  Virginia 
about  the  size  and  population  of  our  Yencheng  field  ?” 

During  the  past  year  (1911)  the  missionaries  have 
made  progress  through  preaching  as  the  waj"  could  be 
opened,  but  their  principal  work  has  been  to  secure  land 
for  houses  in  which  to  live.  After  a tedious  process, 
including  Chinese  lawsuits,  the  possession  of  rented 
quarters  has  been  secured.  The  needs  of  this  field  are 
apparent.  Money  should  at  once  be  provided  for  the 
purchase  of  land,  the  erection  of  missionary  homes,  a 
suitable  chapel,  a school  and  a hospital. 

Nanking. 

While  not  in  the  territory  of  the  North  Kiangsu 
Mission,  Nanking  is,  as  the  seat  of  the  Union  Presby- 
terian Theological  Seminary,  a part  of  the  work  of  the 
Mission.  The  appropriations  made  by  our  church  are 


Famine  Refugees,  North  Kiangsu. 


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XoRTH  OF  THE  YANGTZE 


ill  eiiiial  amounts  from  the  two  Missions.  Young  men 
being  educated  for  the  ministiy,  evangelists,  colporteurs 
and  Christian  workers  are  sent  to  the  Theological  Sem- 
inary at  Nanking  from  the  stations  of  the  Mission. 


INVENTORY  OF  PROPERTY. 

In  comsidering  the  inventory  of  mission  pro^ierty,  it 
is  necessary  to  reniemher  that  mention  of  a specific 
building,  as  hospital,  or  school,  does  not  mean  that  ade- 
quate provision  has  been  made.  The  buildings,  in  a 
number  of  instances,  are  far  from  being  what  the  work 
requires,  as  will  be  learned  from  the  statement  of 
needed  eciiiipment.  The  valuation  of  property  at  each 
station  is  as  follows; 

Chinkiang,  |17,G25.00;  Tsingkiangpu,  ^12,972.00; 
Siichien,  |25,01S.(H);  ITsiichoufn,  .f 10, 721. 00;  Hwaianfu, 
|G,211.00;  Taichow,  f 1,000. 00;  Haichow,  |5,5G0.00; 
Nanking,  |8,500.00.  Total  value  of  property  in  the 
North  Kiangsii  ^Mission,  .^93,007. 00. 


EQUIPMENT  AND  REINFORCEMENTS. 

The  statements  that  follow  pertaining  to  present 
equipment  and  reinforcements  have  been  prepared  by  a 
special  committee  lhat  has  been  at  work  upon  these 
matters  for  two  years.  All  the  items  have  been  care- 
fully considered  in  committee,  reported  to  and  adopted 
by  a full  meeting  of  the  North  Kiangsn  Mission,  and 
finally’  approved  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  Foreign 
Missions.  In  submitling  the  report  the  committee 


North  op  the  Yangtze. 


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saj’s : "We  have  made  serious  attempts  to  reduce  the 
amounts,  but  have  found  this  impossible  Avithout  jeop- 
ardizing the  best  interests  of  the  work.”  It  follows, 
therefore,  that,  in  the  statements  of  needed  equipment 
and  reinforcement  of  missionaries,  the  North  Kiangsu 
Mission  puts  before  the  church  definite  information  as 
to  what  is  regarded  as  essential  and  conservative 
requirements. 


EQUIPMENT. 

Chinkiang: 


Boys’  school  

. .|;5,000  00 

Hospital  

. 5,000  00 

Eesidence  

. 2,200  00— 

812,200  00 

Tsingkiangpii: 

Hospital  (Men  and  Women) 

. 18,000  00 

Bovs’  School 

. 5,000  00 

Church  

. 1,500  00— 

14,500  00 

Sucliien: 

Boys’  School  Development  . 

3,000  00 

Hsuclioufii: 

Women’s  Hospital  

. 85,000  00 

Men’s  Hospital  

. 4,100  00 

Girls’  School  

. 4,000  00— 

13,100  00 

Hwaianfii: 

Hospital  

5,000  00 

Taichotc: 

Hospital  

5,000  00 

Haichoic: 

Hospital  

. 85,000  00 

Boys’  School 

. 5,000  00 

Church 

. 1,500  00— 

11,500  00 

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North  of  the  Yangtze 


Yeiwhcng: 

Hospital  

Church  

Eesidence  

Nanking: 

Union  Medical  College 
Total 


|5,000  00 
1,500  00 

2,200  00—  8,700  00 

2,000  00 

175,000  00 


REINFORCEMENTS. 

With  regard  to  reinforcements  it  is  said:  “We  are 
convinced  that  the  generally  agreed  statement  that  our 
mission  fields  should  have  one  missionary  to  every  25,000 
population  would  give  us  the  smallest  possible  number 
of  men  and  women  that  could  in  any  sense  supply  our 
territory.  With  a population  of  over  ten  million 
dependent  upon  us  for  a knowledge  of  the  Gospel  we 
have  only  fifty-nine  missionaries.”  Realizing  the  press- 
ure upon  the  Executive  Committee  of  Foreign  Missions 
arising  from  the  call  of  all  the  Missions  of  the  Church, 
and  the  financial  stringency,  the  North  Kiangsu  Mission 
further  says : “We  ask  for  only  nineteen  missionaries, 
who  are  absolutely  necessary  for  the  respectable  main- 
tenance of  existing  work.  Of  these,  eight  are  needed  at 
once  and  eleven  to  follow  as  soon  as  possible  during  the 
next  five  years.” 

In  the  detailed  statement  of  the  reinforcements 
needed  at  once  at  the  different  stations  it  appears  that 
missionaries  are  needed  as  follows : Three  men  for 
evangelistic  work ; two  women  for  evangelistic  work ; 
one  physician  and  two  trained  nurses — four  men  and 
four  women — a total  of  eight.  The  reinforcements 
that  are  given  as  necessary  during  the  next  five  years,  in 
addition  to  the  above,  include  men  and  women  as  evan- 


North  of  the  Yangtze. 


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gelists,  nurses,  teachers  and  physicians.  Special  em- 
phasis should  be  laid  upon  the  fact  that  this  call  for 
these  reinforcements  is  not  for  the  purpose  of  extension 
at  new  stations,  but  is  an  expression  of  the  necessities 
of  the  work  already  established. 


OUTSTANDING  FACTS. 

A first  outstanding  fact  is  that  the  advance  of  the 
Mission  stations  north  of  the  Y'angtze  has  been  made 
with  the  strategy  and  precision  of  a military  campaign. 
So  signal  has  been  the  wisdom  with  which  the  field  has 
been  occupied,  that  in  reviewing  the  past  we  are  led  to 
see  that  the  opening  and  extension  of  the  work  in  this 
field  is  of  the  Lord  and  not  of  men. 

A second  outstanding  fact  is  that  by  right  of  spirit- 
ual exploration  and  possession  the  entire  territory,  with 
its  teeming  millions  of  people,  has  been  assigned  to  our 
branch  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  As  certaiul}^,  there- 
fore, as  we  have  seen  the  hand  of  the  Lord  in  the  past, 
we  have  indication  of  his  purpose  concerning  our  future 
work  in  the  North  Kiangsu  field.  It  is  ours  by  more 
than  human  assignment,  and  its  evangelization  becomes 
a responsibility  we  cannot  escape  if  we  would. 

A third  fact  is  the  remarkable  way  in  which  the  some- 
times especially  hard  fields  have  become,  not  only  access- 
ible to  the  gospel,  but  fields  in  which  the  people  are 
appealing  for  light.  Out  of  the  horrors  and  distresses 
of  flood  and  famine,  as  a result  of  the  ministration  of 
consecrated  missionaries  to  the  suffering  and  dying  mul- 
titudes, the  people  are  coming  to  see  that  these  men  and 
women  are  engaged  in  a mission  of  love,  and  are  bearers 


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of  a message  of  blessing  and  peace  hitherto  unknown. 
Onr  section  of  China  north  of  the  Yangtze  is  a wide-open 
door. 

A fourth  fact,  one  of  great  encouragement,  is  that 
just  at  the  time  when  the  country  is  open  to  the  mission- 
aries comparatively  easy  and  speedy  communication  is 
being  established  by  means  of  the  railroads  that  are 
being  built  and  projected.  So  well  under  way  are  these 
l»rojected  lines  of  railway  that  we  do  not  speak  of  them 
in  prophecy,  but  as  mention  of  what  is  being  actually 
done.  It  will  not  be  long  till  the  means  of  comninnica- 
lion  between  the  principal  stations  of  the  North  Kiangsn 
Mission  will  not  be  by  houseboat,  Chinese  cart,  wheel- 
barrow, or  on  foot.  The  day  is  at  hand  when  the  ambas- 
sador of  Jesus  Christ  maj"  go  swiftlj’  on  his  way  to 
deliver  his  message. 

A fifth  outstanding  fact,  which  will  be  seen  bj^  refer- 
ence to  the  map,  and  to  which  attention  has  been  called, 
is  that  the  location  of  onr  mission  stations  is  such  that 
a reasonable  advance,  provision  for  which  the  church 
should  immediately  make,  will  enable  the  missionary 
force  to  rapidly  cover  the  entire  field.  It  is  an  inspiring 
study  to  trace,  city  by  city,  the  line  of  the  stations  from 
Chinkiang  to  Hsnchouf\i;  and  then,  follow  the  line  of 
stations  tbrongh  the  central  i)art  of  the  territory  lying 
between  the  Grand  Canal  and  the  Yellow  Sea  from 
Chinkiang  to  Ilaichow. 

Tbe  last  outstanding  fact  we  mention  is  that  the  ear 
must  be  dull  that  cannot  hear  the  call  of  God  to  our 
historically  missionary  church,  not  to  enter,  for  entrance 
bas  already  l)een  made;  nor  to  begin,  for  we  are  far 
])ast  the  period  of  beginning  the  work  North  of  Yangtze ; 
l)nt  to  complete  the  work  by  sending  the  men  and  the 
Avomen  that  are  ready  to  go,  and  supplying  the  funds  for 


North  of  the  Yangtze 


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equipment  which  we  as  a people  are  able  to  give,  and  so 
accomplish  that  which  is  a reasonable  possibility — evan- 
gelize the  ten  millions  of  the  North  Kiangsn  INIission  in 
this  generation. 


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